A Journey (124 page)

lv) With General Sir Charles Guthrie, left, and General Mike Jackson, right, at the British army HQ near Skopje in Macedonia on the same visit

lvi) Millennium night celebrations on the Embankment in London – the fireworks did not go quite to plan, 1 January 2000

lvii) Singing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ with the Queen and Prince Philip at the Dome, 1 January 2000

lviii) Once I was prime minister, the boundaries between work and life became increasingly blurred. On the phone in the middle of the Pyrenees, August 1999

lix) Leo George Blair was the first child born to a serving prime minister in 150 years

lx) Carrying baby Leo as we arrived at Florence airport, August 2000

lxi) Bill Clinton after a swim at Chequers, pushing Leo in his buggy

lxii) Finding time to strum my beloved guitar in Italy

lxiii) The Chief of the Defence Staff, Sir Charles Guthrie, arrives in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to assess the situation on the ground, 14 May 2000

lxiv) A British soldier meets a young local boy during a patrol through a western suburb of Freetown, 10 May 2000

lxv) Robin Cook meets Fatoun Korumain, who was injured by the rebel fighters, 8 June 2000

lxvi) Inspecting the troops, Sierra Leone, 9 February 2002. I am immensely proud of what we achieved there

lxvii) The fuel crisis of November 2000 was rapidly followed by the foot-and-mouth outbreak the following February